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treatment over the hip, three grains of morphine, and, seeming 
comfortable, was left for the night. Karly in the morning she 
dropped down suddenly and died. At the post-mortem internal 
haemorrhage into the abdominal cavity by rupture of the exter¬ 
nal iliac on the left side was found, with fractures of the poste¬ 
rior iliac spine on the right side ; of the symphysis body of 
both pubes; fracture of the symphysis ischii, and ramus of the 
ischium on the left side. The injury was received the day the 
mare kicked so much, the fragments had been kept in position 
by the periosteum covering the bones, and, becoming displaced 
at the time of the fall, had caused the injury to the blood ves¬ 
sels.—( Vet . Jour .) 
Fracture of the Scapuea [By IV B. Davis ] .—This is 
the record of a horse which had been run into by another at¬ 
tached to a dairyman’s van and had received an extensive 
wound on the middle of the anterior region of the scapula. The 
animal was very lame, and the wound formed a large but rather 
superficial cavity, extending upwards into a gap in the anterior 
spmatus, and at the bottom the anterior edge of the scapula 
could be felt, ragged, denuded of periosteum, with bits of bones 
imbedded in the muscles around. The wound was freely en¬ 
larged, the pieces of bones removed and the parts dressed twice 
a day with antiseptic injections. The animal recovered in four 
weeks and soon resumed work. This case illustrates the great 
advantage, says the author, of the free use of antiseptics in the 
treatment of wounds.— (Vet, Jour.) 
GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S., New York City. 
Impaction of an Oat Sheet in the Cornea of an Ox._ 
A two-year-old ox had suffered with severe conjunctivitis for 
three days. Upon arrival I found the right eyelids intensely 
swollen, hot, painful, and tightly closed. Only after a great 
deal of trouble could the eyelids be opened to the smallest ex¬ 
tent. The cornea was hazy, opaque ; at its junction with the 
sclera at the lateral angle of the orbit, I found a tightly em¬ 
bedded oat shell. I first tried to extract the foreign^ body by 
Ferrant’s method. That is, I carried the right index finger 
covered with a moistened silk handkerchief under the lids mid 
moved it over the circumference of the cornea in the region of 
the foreign body, as well as the sensitiveness of the parts ad- 
